HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
2. Commonwealth Ann Patchett Harper
3. Moonglow Michael Chabon Harper
4. Swing Time Zadie Smith Penguin Press
5. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner
6. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine
7. The Whistler John Grisham Doubleday
8. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
9. The Trespasser Tana French Viking
10. News of the World Paulette Jiles Morrow
NONFICTION
1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
2. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen S&S
3. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis Norton
4. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
5. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman FSG
6. Born a Crime Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau
7. Upstream Mary Oliver Penguin Press
8. Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten Clarkson Potter
9. Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer & et al. Workman
10. Our Revolution Bernie Sanders Thomas Dunne Books
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
2. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press
3. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Random House
4. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions
5. The Sellout Paul Beatty Picador USA
6. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
7. The Best American Short Stories 2016 Junot Diaz & Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) Mariner
8. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George Broadway
9. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead
10. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel
NONFICTION
1. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Penguin
2. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2017Old Farmer’s Almanac
3. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin
4. The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson Anchor
5. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery Atria
6. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor
7. The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf Vintage
8. The Road to Character David Brooks Random House
9. The Witches Stacy Schiff Back Bay
10. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, Dec. 11.
Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.
